I have a xslt code snippet as below:

<td valign="top" width="14%" class="bodytextbold" >
    <select name="selectMedium" class="bodytext" onChange="changeOption(selectedIndex)">
    <option value="">--- Select ---</option>
    <option value="T">Phone</option>
    <option value="F">Fax</option>
    <option value="M">Mail</option>
    <option value="V">Verbal</option>
    </select>
</td>

This will give me a drop down box with the values listed above and I could select what ever value I want to select.

But here my problem is that....I will get a xml string from other components and based on the value for the node "medium" the value should be automatically selected. If xml node "medium" doesn't
contain any value the default value "-- select --" should be selected. And at the same I should be able to change the
value at anytime.

Please suggest me in this regard as I am not familiar with XSLT.

Thanks,
Subbu.

I'm sorry, but I have no sympathy with someone who gets into a position where you have no familiarity with a language, but yet have a "very urgent" problem to solve. If your problem is urgent, you should be using a technology that you are familiar with. I'm very happy to help people who are learning the language, but not if they are in a hurry.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference